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Marc CHAGALL (Franco-Russian, 1887-1985) Das Geschenk,...

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Marc CHAGALL (Franco-Russian, 1887-1985) Das Geschenk, c. 1944 Etching signed in the plate, countersigned in pencil and justified as an "artist's proof". Hors-texte on Italian paper of the study on Marc Chagall by Lionello Venturi at Pierre Matisse in New York in 1945. 50 copies, the first twenty in black and the next thirty enhanced in colour. H. 25,2 W 18,5 cm. Paper : H. 27 W. 20,5 cm. (tiny tear). Provenance: offered by the artist to Paul Lengrand, employed at Unesco, who lived between Suresnes and in the Var; by descent. References: Kornfeld 96, Cramer Books 16.